http://www.digwin.com/cat/BPOS/hot Microsoft Top news, Buzz & Breaking Stories by communities en http://www.digwin.com/tech-challenges-of-a-home-business-how-office-live-can-help (Editor's note: This post continues a short series about using Office Live Workspace to help you work from home.) When you work from home, for your own business or someone else's, you wear many hats. One of them, for most people, is that of a chief information officer. Or IT department head. Or computer tech specialist. Or let's be more realistic. http://www.digwin.com/system-center-online-beta-is-underway For the past 2 weeks, the System Center online beta service has been up and running, to the great delight and excitement of the System Center Online team. We have received hundreds of applications for participation in this beta, and things are looking good! A good number of beta participants have begun testing the service, deployed their clients to http://www.digwin.com/make-a-good-home-office-great-with-office-live-workspace (Editor's note: This post continues a short series about using Office Live Workspace to help you work from home.) For more than 25 years, writer Jeff Wuorio has operated a home-based business in southern Maine. Wuorio always does considerable research on his articles about running a small business, personal finance, and other topics he enjoys. But http://www.digwin.com/how-office-live-workspace-is-helping-our-group-project-stand-out (Editor's note: This post from Adam Lazarus continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) Hello again. Just over a month ago, I for this blog explaining how I started using  for a class project. 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I wanted to provide you with advance notice that we are planning for a brief downtime on the Office Live Workspace and Office Live Small Business Community sites on Sunday, Nov. 15. The downtime will last only 30 minutes, and is scheduled to happen between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Pacific time. The downtime is occurring in order to perform http://www.digwin.com/share-notes-easily-with-windows-7-and-office-live-workspace (Editor's note: This post from Kevin Messenhimer continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) Having a Windows 7-powered laptop with Office Live Workspace on it is an excellent combo for college. I've been using two http://www.digwin.com/how-to-stay-motivated-when-working-from-home (Editor's note: Today, we begin a short series of posts about using Office Live Workspace to help you work from home.) In an article for Office Live Small Business, writer Christopher Elliott offers what he calls the " secrets to staying motivated when you work from home Elliott, who lives in Orlando, Fla., has worked from a home office since 1994. http://www.digwin.com/students-use-office-live-workspace-to-share-course-work-old-tests (Editor's note: This post from Jessica Brazelton continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) A good tip in college is to get to know the upperclassmen. When you're taking difficult classes and need help, the best http://www.digwin.com/why-i-dont-worry-about-forgetting-my-usb-flash-drive-anymore (Editor's note: This post from Charles Timko continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) Ever since finding out about it, I have used it from class projects to personal papers and research. I always thought it was http://www.digwin.com/how-students-use-office-live-workspace-and-office-to-learn-and-to-choose-a-school-masc The teachers at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pa., are serious about having their students become technology savvy. So they have included learning Microsoft Office, Office Live Workspace, and Bing in their lesson plans for the current school year But they also want their students to have fun with technology and their school to have a http://www.digwin.com/my-online-lifesaver-comes-to-the-rescue-again (Editor's note: This post from Daniel Gilmore continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) What is worse than going through all the exams at the end of your senior year in college? Graduating and entering the real http://www.digwin.com/with-a-large-file-upload-capacity-office-live-workspace-lets-you-work-faster-and-do-more Oh, and it doesn't just stop there. The assignments we have now require providing files that aren't just full of words. They must also include pictures, diagrams, charts, and other types of illustrations. This can easily make individual files surpass 500 kilobytes easily. Students are able to utilize Office Live Workspace's upload capacity, which http://www.digwin.com/why-group-projects-are-no-longer-as-frustrating-for-this-college-kid (Editor's note: This post from Lyle David Zoumut continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) I really dig working in teams. It's an unforgettable feeling of empowerment, fueled by amazing synergies, and a ton of http://www.digwin.com/how-office-live-workspace-is-helping-my-semesterlong-group-project (Editor's note: This post from Adam Lazarus continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) Hello there. My name is Adam and I am a Microsoft student partner. This semester I'm using my for a semester-long project t http://www.digwin.com/top-5-reasons-you-should-be-using-office-live-workspace (Editor's note: This post from Lyle David Zoumut continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) School is in full swing and it's a given that there arent enough hours in the day and that we probably don't get enough http://www.digwin.com/how-office-live-workspace-can-make-your-netbook-handy-most-anywhere (Editor's note: As students head back to school, this post from Kevin Messenhimer continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) Netbooks are innovative devices that have been out in the market for some time now. http://www.digwin.com/let-office-live-workspace-help-you-land-a-job-before-graduation (Editor's note: As students head back to school, this post from Marisa Pacifico continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) A friend told me recently that 80% of all students graduated from college in 2009 without http://www.digwin.com/system-center-online-desktop-manager-beta-is-coming-soon The System Center Online team has been working hard in preparation for its next beta release of System Center Online Desktop Manager, expected in the fall of this year.  This exclusive beta will only be available to a select number of customers.  Our last beta was only offered to a small audience and resulted in a lot of great feedback from the cus